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Earthquakes explained and practically improved
Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries show London's mercies. Both compared.Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries shew London's mercies. Both compared.
printed by Benjamin Harris & are to be sold, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 An Earthquake lifting the Earth upright: and by & by letting it down again, after the manner of boiling Water, or waxing not.
2 An Earthquake lifting the Earth upright: and by & by letting it down again, after the manner of boyling Water, or waxing not.
3 Earthquakes causing Chasms, Chinks, Openings of the Earth, making Breaches in it, & tearing one part from another.
3 Earthquakes causing Chasmes, Chinks, Openings of the Earth, making Breaches in it, & tearing one part from another.
4 Earthquakes, which by force break their way, & the Vapours and Winds do get out of the Bowels of the Earth, which sometimes take with them Rocks, or Mud, or open a flowing Fountain where there was none before.
5 Earthquakes which by one motion, enforcing or thrusting, overthrow, overturn whatsoever they come upon, or rush against.